Research at the Mitchell Center - published materials by staff, faculty and students including peer-reviewed articles and technical reports

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES and RELATED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Kahl, J.S., J. Stoddard, R. Haeuber, S. Paulsen, R. Birnbaum, F. Deviney, D. DeWalle, C. Driscoll, A. Herlihy, J. Kellogg, P. Murdoch, K. Roy, W. Sharpe, S. Urquhart, R. Webb, and K. Webster, 2004. Response of surface water chemistry to changes in acidic deposition: implications for future amendments to Clean Air Act. Environmental Science and Technology, Feature Article, in press.

J.S. Kahl, S.J. Nelson, J.L. Stoddard, S.A. Norton, T.A. Haines, 2004. Lakewater Chemistry at Acadia National Park, Maine, in Response to Declining Acidic Deposition, in Protecting our Diverse Heritage: The Role of Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites. Proceedings of the George Wright Society/National Park Service Joint Conference, April 14-18, 2003, San Diego, CA. David Harmon, Bruce M. Kilgore, Gay E. Vietzke, eds. The George Wright Society, Hancock, MI. pp. 314-321.

Lawlor, J., J. Rubin, B.J. Cosby, I. Fernandez, J.S. Kahl, S. Norton, 2004. Predicting recovery from acidic deposition: Applying a modified TAF (Tracking Analysis Framework) Model to Maine High Elevation Lakes, Water Air Soil Pollut, in press.

Nielsen, M.G., and J.S. Kahl, 2004. Nutrient export from watersheds on Mount Desert Island; differences in export as a function of fire history. Environmental Monitoring and Assess., in press.

Campbell, J, J. Hornbeck, M. Mitchell, M. Adams, M. Castro, C. Driscoll, J.S. Kahl, and others, 2004. Input-output budgets for inorganic nitrogen for 24 watersheds in the northeastern United States. Water Air Soil Pollut., 151:373-396.

Peckenham, J.M., J. S. Kahl, and B. Mower (2003) Background mercury concentrations in river water in Maine, USA. Env. Monit. Assess., 89, p.129-152.

Fernandez, I, L. Rustad, S. Norton, J.S. Kahl, and B.J. Cosby, 2003. Experimental acidification causes soil base cation depletion at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine. J. Soil Soc Assoc Am., in press.

Campbell, J. L., J.W. Hornbeck, M.J. Mitchell, M.B. Adams, M.S. Castro, C.T. Driscoll, J. S. Kahl, J.N. Kochenderfer, G.E. Likens, J.A. Lynch, P.S. Murdoch, S.J. Nelson, and J.B. Shanley, 2002. A Synthesis of Nitrogen Budgets from Forested Watersheds in the Northeastern United States. In review, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution.
Acadia / BBWM

Amirbahman, A., A. Reid, T. Haines, J. S. Kahl, and C. Arnold, 2002. Association of Methylmercury with Dissolved Humic Acids. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36:690-695.

Pellerin, B., I Fernandez, S. Norton, and J. S. Kahl, 2002. Soil aluminum distribution in the near-stream zone at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine. Water Air Soil Pollution 134:189-204.
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Norton, S., B.J. Cosby, I. Fernandez, J. S. Kahl, and R. Church, 2002. Inter-annual and seasonal variations in soil-air CO₂ cause variable watershed alkalinity generation. Hydrol. Earth Science Systems, in press.

Kahl, J. S., J. Stoddard, R. Haeuber, S. Paulsen, and others, 2004. Response of surface water chemistry to changes in acidic deposition: implications for the upcoming debate on the federal Clean Air Act. Environmental Science and Technology, Feature Article in review.
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Norton, S., I. Fernandez, J. S. Kahl, and R. Reinhardt, 2003. Acidification trends and the evolution of neutralization mechanisms through time at the Bear Brook Watershed, Maine, USA. Water, Air, Soil, Pollut., in press.
BBWM

Amirbahman, A. P. Ruck, I Fernandez, T. Haines, and J. S. Kahl, 2003. The effects of fire on mercury distribution in soils of Acadia National Park. Water Air, Soil Pollut., in review.
Acadia

Fernandez, I, L. Rustad, S. Norton, J. S. Kahl, and B.J. Cosby, 2003. Experimental acidification causes soil base cation depletion at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine. J. Soil Soc Assoc Am., in press.
BBWM

Neilsen, M.G., and J. S. Kahl, 2003. Nutrient export from watersheds on Mount Desert Island; differences in export as a function of fire history. JAWARA, in review.
Acadia

Amirbahman, A., A. Pearce, R. Bouchard, S. Norton, and J. S. Kahl, 2003. Relationship between hypolimnetic phosphorus and iron release from 11 lakes in Maine, USA. Biogeochemistry, in press.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

J.M. Peckenham assisted by Nadeau, J. (2004) Biosolids Stockpile Study, Final report to Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

Peckenham, J.M. (2004) Wood Cored Check Dam Effects on Water Quality, report to Maine Department of Transportation.

Peckenham, J.M., J. Nadeau, and A. Amirbahman (2003). Biosolids Leachate Experiment, New England Water Environment Association, Bedford, NH, November 13, 2003.

Peckenham, J.M. and J. Nadeau (2003). Biosolids Field Stacking Experiment, Maine Waste Waste Control Association, Casco, ME, September 18, 2003.

Peckenham, J.M., J. Nadeau, and A. Amirbahman (2004). Nitrogen Loss From The Controlled Field Stacking of Biosolids, Maine Water Conference, Augusta, ME, April 22, 2004.

Peckenham, J.M., J. Nadeau, A. Amirbahman, W. Brutsaert, and J. Wilson (2004). Leachate From Biosolid Stockpiles: Nutrients and Metal Mobility, Amer. Geophys. Union Mtg., Montreal, PQ, May 21, 2004.

Peckenham, J.M. (2004). Maine Biosolids Stockpiling Study Project Report, Report to the Maine Depart. Env. Prot., 39 p.

Campbell, J.L., J.W. Hornbeck, M.J. Mitchell, M.B. Adams, M.S. Castro, C.T. Driscoll, J.S. Kahl, J.N. Kochenderfer, G.E. Likens, J.A. Lynch, P.S. Murdoch, S.J. Nelson, and J.B. Shanley, 2004. A Synthesis of Nitrogen Budgets from Forested Watersheds in the Northeastern United States. Water Air Soil Pollut 151: 373-396.

Johnson, K.B., Nelson, S.J., Kahl, J.S., Haines, T.A. and Fernandez, I.J.: 2004b, ‘Mass balances of mercury and nitrogen in burned and unburned forested watersheds at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA’, Environ. Monit. Assess.

Kahl, J.S. and S. Nelson, 2004. guest editors, special issue of Environmental Monitoring and Assessment on watershed research at Acadia National Park.

Kahl, J.S., J. Stoddard, R. Haeuber, S. Paulsen, and others, 2004. Response of surface water chemistry to changes in acidic deposition: implications for the upcoming debate on the federal Clean Air Act. Environmental Science and Technology, Feature Article in review.

Peckenham, J., 2004, in prep. The persistence of MtBE in groundwater in Maine, to be submitted Groundwater Contamination and Remediation. (revisions in progress).

Bank, M. C. Loftin, A. Amirbahman, J. Peckenham, T. Haines, and R. Jung, 2004. Mercury bioaccumulation in lotic and lentic amphibians: regional conservation implications for aquatic ecosystems in the Northeastern United States. Abstrc. ARMI

Schmitt, C. and J. Peckenham, 2004. Source Water Protection, submitted to Journal Amer. Water Works Assoc.

Peckenham, J., J. Kahl, S. Nelson, K. Johnson, and T. Haines, 2004. Landscape controls on mercury in streamwater at Acadia National Park, USA, Env. Monit. Asses., in press.

Peckenham, J.M. and M. G. Nielsen, 2004, in prep. Spatial and temporal patterns of MTBE in ground water in Windham, Maine.

Schauffler, M., Nelson, S.J., Kahl, J.S., Jacobson, G.L., Jr, Haines, T.A., Patterson, W.A., III, and Johnson, K.B.: 2004, ‘Paleoecological assessment of watershed history in PRIMENet watersheds at Acadia National Park, USA’, Environ. Monit. Assess.

Amirbahman, A. P. Ruck, I Fernandez, T. Haines, and J.S. Kahl, 2003. The effects of fire on mercury distribution in soils of Acadia National Park. Water Air, Soil Pollut., in press.

Amirbahman, A., A. Pearce, R. Bouchard, S. Norton, and J.S. Kahl, 2003. Relationship between hypolimnetic phosphorus and iron release from 11 lakes in Maine, USA. Biogeochemistry, in press.

Campbell, J, J. Hornbeck, M. Mitchell, M. Adams, M. Castro, C. Driscoll, J.S. Kahl, and others, 2003. Input-output budgets for inorganic nitrogen for 24 watersheds in the northeastern United States. Water Air Soil Pollut., in press.

Evans, G.C., S. Norton, I. Fernandez, J.S. Kahl, and D. Hanson, 2004. Changes in concentrations of major and trace metals in northeastern U.S and Canadian sub-alpine forest floor. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, in press.

Kahl, J.S., S.J. Nelson, J.L. Stoddard, S.A. Norton, T.A. Haines, 2003. Lakewater chemistry at Acadia National Park, Maine, in response to declining acidic deposition. In press, Joint Conference Proceedings: The 2003 George Wright Society Biennial Conference and CR2003: A Conference for the National Park Service and Its Partners.

Neilsen, M.G., and J.S. Kahl, 2003. Nutrient export from watersheds on Mount Desert Island; differences in export as a function of fire history. JAWRA, in review.

Norton, S., I. Fernandez, J.S. Kahl, and R. Reinhardt, 2003. Acidification trends and the evolution of neutralization mechanisms through time at the Bear Brook Watershed, Maine, USA. Water, Air, Soil, Pollut., in press.

Peckenham, J.M., J. S. Kahl, and B. Mower, 2003. Background mercury concentrations in river water in Maine, USA. Env. Monit. Assess., 89, pp. 129-152.

Peckenham, J. M., S.A. Norton, and A. Reeve, (2002) The Effects of Road Salt Policy on Surface Water Chemistry in Alton Bog, Maine, Maine Dept. of Trans. Tech. Report.

Schmitt, C. and J. M. Peckenham (2002) Source Water Protection: Linking Surface Water Quality to the Watershed. Handbook, Univ. of Maine 85 p.

Dupont, J., S. Kahl, S. Nelson, J. M. Peckenham, C. Gagnon, J. Choate, T.A. Clair, D.S. Jeffries, D. Taylor, (2002). Critical loads of acidity and water sensitivity in New England states and Eastern Canadian provinces. Produced on behalf of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers’ Acid Rain Steering Committee.
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Schmitt, C. and J. M. Peckenham (2002) Public Law 761: Protecting Maine’s Drinking Water, Univ. Maine Geograph. Digest Ser., 4 p.

Kahl, J.S. C. Gray, J. Grimalt, K. Tonnessen, and J. Wiener, 2002. Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project; report of the review panel. 14 p.

Peckenham, J., J. S. Kahl, and S. J. Nelson 2002. Lake Water Chemistry Trends in New England. Report to the New England Governors-Eastern Canadian Premiers, Water Quality Workgroup.
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Kahl, J.S., J. Rubin, I. Fernandez, S. Norton, L. Rustad, J. Lawlor, D. Mageean, J. Cosby, and P. Ludwig, 2002. Linking watershed-scale indicators of changes in atmospheric deposition to regional response patterns. Final report, EPA/NSF Water and Watersheds program. 36 p., plus attachments.

Schauffler, M., S. Nelson, K. Johnson, J. S. Kahl, G. Jacobson, and I. Fernandez, 2002. Paleoecological assessment of forest-disturbance in upper Hadlock Brook and upper Cadillac Brook watersheds. Final report to NPS, Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, ME. 30p.
Acadia

Nelson, S. J., 2002. Determining Atmospheric Deposition inputs to two small watersheds at Acadia National Park. M. S. Thesis, University of Maine, Orono, ME. 163 pp.
Acadia

Nelson, S. and J. S. Kahl (editors), 2003. Inferring regional patterns and responses in N and Hg biogeochemistry using two sets of gauged paired-watersheds. Final report to EPA and National Park Service (9 chapters), Mitchell Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME. 172 p.
Acadia

Stoddard, J., J. S. Kahl, F. Deviney, D. DeWalle, C. Driscoll, A. Herlihy, J. Kellogg, P. Murdoch, J. Webb, and K. Webster, 2003. Response of surface water chemistry to the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. EPA/620/R-03/001, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. 78 p.
RLTM / HELM / BBWM

Kahl, J. S. 2003. Re-use planning for the former Schoodic Point Navy base: the Schoodic Education and Research Center at Acadia National Park. Consultant report to the National Park Service. 37 p.

Morse, C., J. S. Kahl, and D. Witherill, 2003. Measuring the impact of development on Maine surface waters. Information Digest, Senator George Mitchell Center, 12 p.

Dupont, J. T. Clair, S. Couture, R. Estabrook, P. Godfrey, D. Jeffries, J. S. Kahl, S. Nelson, J. Peckenham, W. Pilgrim, P. Stacey, D. Taylor, A. Van Arsdale, 2002. Changes in Water Quality in New England and Eastern Canada. Report of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers. 5p. NEG-ECP, Quebec Ministry of the Environment, Quebec City, PQ, CA.
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